The males have outnumbered females in the land’s total headcount and one of the reasons for that to happen is said to be the unlawful practice of female foeticide which the authorities are finding it tricky to detect and unable to stop completely. Even catchy slogans created some years ago and flashed across the country…

This year’s monsoon has dealt a double blow by delayed arrival and considerably less rainfall than normal, which is determined on the basis of an 80-year average. While the prospect of both cities and villages facing waterless days during the months ahead before next year’s monsoon arrives has all signs of becoming a grave reality,…

Give a dog a bad name and hang him is an 18th century English proverb. A similar proverb is he that has an ill name is half-hanged. Further, if a person’s reputation has been besmirched, then he will suffer difficulty and hardship. While the vote-mongers in the State serve a real-time illustration of the second…

As if to keep august company with nature, engineering colleges first took birth in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra virtually causing a flood of institutions during the past few decades offering courses in different branches of engineering only to be followed by a drought of jobs for the graduates. The dramatic emergence of…

We are hearing about human beings colonising Planet Mars, the nearest to Earth, at a future date. Travel time between the two Planets, currently being close to ten months, is beyond the comprehension of lay people. While teams with rich experience and knowledge in the field of space exploration have many landmark achievements to their…

The idiom The child is the father of man, originating from a poem scripted by the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in 1802, exclaiming the role of man behind the birth of a child has been interpreted in various ways. Its implication that the behaviour and manners of a person during childhood have a bearing…

No matter which city across the country one chooses to live in, particularly those hosting more residents than they would themselves feel comfortable in life from dawn to dusk, the unalloyed affinity most of the residents have for their chosen city should bring to our memory the popular song from a Hindi biopic of 1950s…

Of the four pillars of Democracy (a) Legislature, (b) Executive (c) Judiciary and (d) Media, the Parliament, the bicameral Legislature comprising two Houses, vested with the responsibility for making laws, ostensibly to sub-serve the onerous task of good governance of the country, has landed itself in the eye of a storm, given the daily scene…

Debates on climate change and global warming that only the cognoscenti were busy with have not only interested lay people but also become louder and wider in public domain. Keen observers of the twin phenomena have sounded the world at large about warming and its consequences, particularly changed pattern of monsoon and soil productivity leading…